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Published Photographer

farrelley — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:50:37 +0000

I am finally got one of my photographs published. Yea! Two weeks ago “schmap” (schmap.com) contacted me asking if they could use one of my picture I had posted on flickr. Couple days ago they sent me a link to the photo and the write up that they have. The picture represents Fort Myers and Cape Coral in their travel guide. They have the following write up accompanying the photo,

Located along the Caloosahatchee River, Fort Myers is the heart of Southwest Florida. A paradise with a lovely Southern pace and in harmony with nature, it is bordered by white seashell beaches, tropical island sanctuaries and crystal waters.

The photo is of an early morning Storm at over the Pier at Fort Myers Beach (Florida) looking towards Sanibel and Captiva islands. I have this photo framed in my living room and it was always one of my favorites from the Fort Myers area.

If you are interested in purchasing this photo please contact me.

Photo on Flickr
Schmap.com Travel Guide with photo

flickr Web Upload

farrelley — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:44:49 +0000

The new web picture uploader on flickr is great. The interface is easy to use and there is now feed back on how much longer you have till your upload is complete. Also your now not limited to 5 photos … Continue reading →

Fireworks + Photography = Nice Pictures!

farrelley — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:23:00 +0000

Ok it’s that time again. Here is a good article on “How to Photograph Fireworks”
[tags]July 4th, Fireworks, 4th of July[/tags]

A Day in the Life

farrelley — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:44:00 +0000

UPDATE: OK, today is May 6th and the 24 hours of flickr has been completed. Though people still have till the 21st to upload images only images taken on the 5th can be submitted. Here are the two images that I am undecided on which one to submit. They are both take of the same egret. What one is better (leave in comments)?


Picture 1	Picture 2

The 24 hours of flickr has began and I have taken some shot already and posted them on flickr.

Already I have taken a long walk on beach (7:00am) and now I am in the process of cleaning the home office in preparation for the move down the road to our new apartment.

More to Come

[tags]flickr, cinco de mayo, 24 hours of flickr, photos[/tags]

24 Hours of Flickr

farrelley — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:04:05 +0000

Flickr.com is holding a photo event called “24 hours of flickr.” On May 5th you are encourage to photograph a day in the life of yourself. It sounds really cool. Once all the photos are compiled flickr is going to make a book and put select photos on display at some of their flickr events. I think I am going to participate. You should too! If you have a flickr account then “Join the flickr Group”

Is anyone else going to be doing this.

[tags]flickr.com, 24 hours of flickr, photography[/tags]

Christmas at Disney 2006

farrelley — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:54:19 +0000

Here are some videos that Jen and I shot while at Disney for Christmas.

Grand Floridian - Music in the background is a live brass band on the second floor. Santa is sitting next to the tree spreading his holiday cheer on Christmas Eve. Jen and I with Santa

Click here to view the embedded video.

Candle Light Processional at Epcot – The narrator is Gary Sinise from Forrest Gump. He recited the Nativity scene while the orchestra and choir sang.

Click here to view the embedded video.

More photos of the trip can be found here!

The Best of Flickr

farrelley — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:24:37 +0000

As you probably know I post a lot of my pictures on flickr. Today I saw this link which is a slide show of the best of flickr. I highly recommend flickr and would tell everyone to check it out. Buy the flickr pro, it’s worth it.

[tags]flickr, best of, photography[/tags]

Moo Cards

farrelley — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:07:07 +0000

Do you have a Flickr Pro account? Do you want to print your images on Business like cards? Well you are all set! Last night Andy sent me an instant message about moo.com. It simply said something like “Go to moo.com to get some free stuff. Only for Flickr.com Pro users.” When I got over to the site I saw that you can get 10 free cards with your flickr images printed on the front and anything your want on the reverse. This is such a good concept. Here is how it works.
First your must have a Flickr Pro account

Point your browser to moo.com
Click on the I want some button.
I clicked on the 10 free cards for flickr.com pro users (the button is labeled Make a 10 pack)
Moo.com loads Flickr with a privacy statement asking if it is ok for moo to log into your account with the username and password that you feed it. You must say ok to this since moo needs to load your pictures for your cards.
Once you have completed the login, you can select your best pictures from your Flickr account and drag them into the selection bar that is displayed below your images. To remove an image from your selected images just click and drag it to the trash.
Once you have added your photos continue to the next page to add any information to the back of the card. I think there is a maximum of 5 or 6 lines. If you are doing the 10 free cards the Flickr logo and if you want your Flickr icon will be displayed on the right side of the card.
When you are finished click the next button on fill out your information for mailing and billing information.
You’re done! Just allow moo 10 working days to mail you your cards. Just remember your cards are shipping from London, UK

This is a marvelous idea. What a great use of the Flickr API. I ordered my 10 free ones yesterday. Hopefully the quality is good because I may be in the market to purchase 100 cards. Heck its only $19.95 for 100! For start-ups and especially photographers this is a great idea for business cards. Display your work on your cards. I will probably be writing about the process and quality once I receive the cards.

Photo GeoTagging a Success

farrelley — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:04:27 +0000

Flickr.com released a new functionality this week for there users, GeoTagging. This is a very cool function. It allows you to place your images on a map so that you can virtually see where the picture was taken from. As of now Flickr is the only company out there using this functionality, and it has been a success so far. TechCrunch is reporting that with in the first 24 hours of allowing users to geotag, they have had 1.2 million images placed on a map. However, Fickr will not be the only company getting into this arena. Google’s Picasa is in the works of adding geotagging and will be available to place images on Google earth application. This is still in the beta stages so Flickr will have a pretty good gathering of users before Google can get there application released.

I like the idea of geotagging because it allows a person to search for pictures based on a particular location. Though, I thought it was very time consuming to add images to the map. Flickr allows you to drag and drop an image or a set of images that you want to be geotagged. Hopefully in the future camera makers will add a small GPS chip to the camera which will add metadata to the photo with the latitude and longitude of the picture when it was shot. This would then allow you to easily be able to geotag your photos.

Many people are talking about Flickr’s Geotagging and I would call this a success for yahoo in the web2.0 (if that’s what you want to call it) war. Yahoo has beaten Google in picture geotagging.

[tags]Flickr, GeoTagging, Picasa, Yahoo, Google, Web2.0[/tags]

I have a Flickr Site

farrelley — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:05:16 +0000

Check it out here